{"id":5916,"date":"2013-02-24T12:25:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T12:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5916"},"modified":"2013-03-19T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T12:50:10","slug":"breast-ironing-an-appeal-to-my-mother-to-realise-i-need-to-be-a-women-on-my-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/02\/breast-ironing-an-appeal-to-my-mother-to-realise-i-need-to-be-a-women-on-my-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Breast ironing ( an appeal to my mother to realise I need to be a women on my terms))"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a girl<br \/>\nand growing up in Africa<br \/>\nis bad<br \/>\nits in the minds of<br \/>\nmany<br \/>\nand that has made me sad<br \/>\nsad, because my own mother<br \/>\nhas done this to me<br \/>\nused a heated hammer on my nubile breasts<br \/>\nyou see<\/p>\n<p>she thinks that as I grow<br \/>\nmy breasts will grow<br \/>\nand then some males<br \/>\nwill look at me<br \/>\nin ways that mean<br \/>\nI walk the darker trails<br \/>\ntrails of sexual nature<br \/>\nwhen ofcourse its in her mind<br \/>\nand in the prejudice of men<br \/>\nwho habitually are blind<\/p>\n<p>to the beauty that<br \/>\nsurrounds them<br \/>\nour bodies are aglow<br \/>\nwith wonder and with magic<br \/>\nits is when<br \/>\nand how we grow<br \/>\nthe pain of it<br \/>\nmentally and physically<br \/>\nfor me the cut and thrust<br \/>\nof bashing at my nipples<br \/>\nits terribly unjust  <\/p>\n<p>burning, chafing, scraping<br \/>\noh! mum I feel such pain<br \/>\nthe agony that you create<br \/>\nso why now do you rain<br \/>\nblows upon my person<br \/>\nme your pubescent soul<br \/>\nhardly out of nappies<br \/>\nbut ready for my role<\/p>\n<p>in taking on some lurid eyes<br \/>\nof anything but gentle men<br \/>\nwho feel the urge<br \/>\nand try to purge<br \/>\nthe spirit kind of when<br \/>\nthey see me<br \/>\nI must understand<br \/>\nnot hide myself away<br \/>\nand not allow disfigurement<br \/>\nof this sick old fashioned way<\/p>\n<p>harrassment it is out there<br \/>\nand rape, is out there too<br \/>\nbut transforming me into some sad<br \/>\ndeformed soul will not do<br \/>\nsome might still be seeing<br \/>\nme as relevant, and such woe<br \/>\nit so does do my head in<br \/>\nwhen she says she loves me so<\/p>\n<p>but practices this torture<br \/>\nthis evil still on me<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather take my chances<br \/>\nthan be bludgeoned forcefully<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather be a women<br \/>\nand be respected by<br \/>\nthe kind of men<br \/>\nthere must be<br \/>\nwho will love me till I die<\/p>\n<p>love me as a women<br \/>\nand in my soul stay warm<br \/>\nrespect and be sincere to me<br \/>\nand avid of my form<br \/>\nnot covert me but share<br \/>\nwith me<br \/>\nour bodies and our souls<br \/>\nand let me take my place<br \/>\nin life<br \/>\nconfident of my roles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>breast ironing has no place in this world now<br \/>\nits an antiquated philosophy leading to its necessity <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/02\/breast-ironing-an-appeal-to-my-mother-to-realise-i-need-to-be-a-women-on-my-terms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-womens-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5916"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6586,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions\/6586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}